Dont be so blind.
Sony controls what content is going to be put up, its not free for anybody to put stuff on, and while they probably will allow other developers to put games up and such, they will certainly moderate the content, titles which are in direct competition with their own titles, will most likely get cut.
The only comparison that is remotely close here is your UMD comparison (allthought not really, as Sony has completely different motives than in this case)
So you're saying that when Sony's download portal opens up, they will refuse to sell content from other providers? Or other content providers will snub Sony's content portal because they are competitors? And you're saying this market is totally and utterly different from Sony's Connect service that had content from different, competing companies to Sony music?Dont be so blind...*rant*.*rant*.*rant*
So you're saying that when Sony's download portal opens up, they will refuse to sell content from other providers? Or other content providers will snub Sony's content portal because they are competitors? And you're saying this market is totally and utterly different from Sony's Connect service that had content from different, competing companies to Sony music?
That goes without saying, and I never said otherwise. The question was would non-Sony content appear, and the answer is 'yes' because Sony would make money from said portal by selling other people's stuff, as Apple and MS do with their content portals and Sony does (or did?) with CONNECT, and other people can make money from that portal by selling their own stuff.What im saying is that when Sony's portal comes up, they will certainly moderate that market in their best interest, and that usually means moderating content, or moderating how the content is priced or markedet. Sony has an interest in not only promoting the download service, but also selling as much as possible of their own stuff, assuming they will not take advandage of being the "law" in the marked, is something that goes against everything one learns in financial and economical theories.
HD.
Actually, didn't MS announce awhile back a deal with Direct TV to have a DTV tuner module to use with Vista's Media Center features?